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After making his point, Martinez left the National Assembly chambers where we caught up with him outside. Martinez defended his position, saying that he has not received any monies for rental from the government. The minister asserts that there is not a single document that can prove otherwise. News Five got a hold of the […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Caribbean Shores area rep Kareem Musa attempted to discuss the exclusive lottery contract which was given to Brads. In the recent past House sitting, Cayo South area representative Julius Espat revealed that Good Lee Limited controls majority shares in the boledo company. He also revealed that Good Lee is registered in Saint Lucia and questioned […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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But there was agreement on a matter. Prime Minister Dean Barrow has yet to officially announce a date for the 2020 General Elections even though his son and U.D.P. caretaker of Mesopotamia, Shyne Barrow, has said that it will be on November fourth. The Prime Minister has publicly hinted that it will be held in […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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All six persons detained from Orange Walk in connection with recent suspect drug plane landing on a farm off the Old Northern Highway have been released. Just before news time, the last person, Noel Codd, who is the owner of the farm on which the plane made a clandestine landing, was released from police custody, […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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The wheels of justice are turning slow for a former cop. Back in 2008, Anthony Polonia was found guilty of perjury by a Police Tribunal in a sensational case of murder turned manslaughter involving the now deceased Ben Bou-Nahra and he was removed from the department. Polonio was one of the cops who reportedly developed […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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In the Supreme Court, a man who is accused of holding up a farmer at gunpoint and robbing him of his vehicle, farm equipment and produce worth over twenty-eight thousand dollars was today granted bail. Luis Tun’s attorney, Hurl Hamilton convinced Justice Antoinette Moore that he has no reason to flee the jurisdiction. He was […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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While Luis Tun was lucky to get bail, one man who does not share in that luck is Francisco Rodriguez. He is accused of a slew of charges that the Judge thought are too serious to allow him freedom while he awaits trial. Rodriguez’s attorney, Anthony Sylvestre, could not convince Justice Moore to grant him […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Forty-two-year-old Kendra Foreman was released from the Belize Central Prison on Thursday, after being detained for several months during the state of emergency that was effected in Belize City back in July. Foreman, a resident of Mayflower Street was, swept up along with several others from that area following a violent weekend that saw two […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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There is an allegation that police have been threatening residents to keep them longer behind bars if they do not surrender firearms. Well today, at least twelve firearms were recovered in the south side of the city. The cache includes six point thirty-eight revolvers, two point nine millimetres pistols, three point three eighty pistols, one […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Havana Store in Dangriga was held up on Thursday night by a pistol-toting robber and an accomplice who relieved an Asian businessman of an undisclosed sum of money. The incident happened sometime around seven p.m. while other customers were inside the establishment making purchases. The gunman is heard saying “rapido, rapido” and as seen on […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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There are fifty-two new cases of the novel coronavirus bringing the overall positive cases for the country to one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight. So far, twenty-two deaths have been recorded; there are also two persons intubated in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The most recent infographic from the Ministry of Health […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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At today’s Sitting of the House, parliamentarians gave bipartisan support to several bills including the Cybercrime Bill 2020. The bill was fashioned by the Office of the Special Envoy for Women and Children in collaboration with the Office of the Speaker of the House, and key government departments including the Office of the Attorney General […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Are big time landowners across the country once again getting a tax break? Another bill was introduced in parliament today by Minister of Natural Resources Hugo Patt that raised serious concerns from the opposition. The premise of the proposed legislation has to do with relief in respect of the payment of land taxes amid the […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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On Thursday, the Government of Belize formally opened a stretch of highway connecting Ladyville to the Western Pines community during an inauguration in which that thoroughfare was also officially named the John Smith Airport Link Road. In keeping with the theme of naming public buildings, roads and bridges after Belizean patriots, this morning Prime Minister […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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A joint declaration by the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the National Trade Union Congress of Belize and the Belize Network of N.G.O.s was signed this morning in Belize City. The tripartite statement is dubbed the Declaration of Social Partners of Belize for Reform of Essential Oversight Mechanisms to Strengthen the Democratic Governance of […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Back to the House of Representatives where the Defence (Amendment Bill) 2020 was also introduced. The bill amends the Defence Act to bring it into conformity with the Belize Constitution. The amendment was further prompted after News Five broke the news of serious allegations of sexual assault and rape within the Belize Defence Force. In […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Cayo South area representative Julius Espat have almost at every Sitting of the House of Representatives exchanged blows, and it got so bad, that Espat was once carried out of the National Assembly by police officers. At today’s sitting, there was some form of civility between both, but then it […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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September twenty-fifth is being recognised as World Pharmacists Day and is being celebrated under the theme, “Transforming Global Health.” Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing, the activities, including personal development training for pharmacists, are not being held. Instead, pharmacists are being awarded for their years of service and commitment to the profession. […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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Acting Technical Advisor of the Pharmacy Unit at the Ministry of Health, Samira Gongora says that contrary to what is widely perceived; pharmacists play a vital role in the health services in the country. There are over two hundred and fifty plus registered pharmacists in both the public and private sector. Gongora says that these […]
Written on September 25, 2020 | Posted in
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There were a lot of noises when a drug plane was found at a farm on Independence Day. An investigation into the suspected drug plane in northern Belize is ongoing, though a property owner on whose farm the aircraft landed has been charged and arraigned but not in relation to the drug plane. Noel Codd […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Though there were no drugs to be found where the drug plane landed, a number of items were confiscated by police from the area. Codd was rearrested after he was charged. Shipyard resident, Isaac Petka, was also detained for alleged facilitation of the landing of a plane in an unregistered aerodrome. But charges are also […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Police on Tuesday was also exuberant about a bust in southern Belize. But as it turns out an internal investigation conducted by the Customs and Excise Department into the importation of cargo from Guatemala over the weekend has revealed that Richard Garbutt, the officer in charge of the Punta Gorda location, acted in accordance with […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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As you know, on Wednesday, there was a report that Director of Health Services Doctor Marvin Manzanero had resigned. While that was promptly denied by the government via a press release, there have been lingering questions about what really transpired at the meeting of the National Oversight Committee, on Wednesday. Just before news time, we […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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As of Wednesday night, Belize registered one thousand seven hundred and nine cases of COVID-19. Six hundred and sixty five cases remain active but so far one thousand and nineteen persons have recovered. Every day there are new cases and every day persons recover. And in the past few days, the number of recovered persons […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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Also speaking out against the S.I. is attorney Audrey Matura. According to Matura, Statutory Instrument one-thirty-four has to be taken to the National Assembly to be affirmed and since that has not been done, it cannot be enforced. Matura also says that the S.I. is in contravention to the Belize constitutions which makes provisions for […]
Written on September 24, 2020 | Posted in
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